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getWWW -- get a web page

Description

Synopsis

  • Usage:
    getWWW URL
  • Inputs:
  • Outputs:
    • the contents of the web page, together with the http headers, at the address given by URL

Synopsis

  • Usage:
    getWWW(URL,TEXT)
  • Inputs:
  • Outputs:
    • obtain the contents of the web page addressed by URL from an http server, using the POST method, provided with TEXT

Accessing a secure web site (whose URL begins with https:) depends on your having installed openssl on your system.

See also

Ways to use getWWW:

  • getWWW(String)
  • getWWW(String,Nothing)
  • getWWW(String,String)

For the programmer

The object getWWW is a method function.

The source of this document is in Macaulay2Doc/ov_system.m2:1731:0.